Like we told you would happen, the national press is pointing out how anti-Obama Kentucky Democrats happen to be. [WaPo]

Why the hell did it take a judge to decide it was okay for a kid to wear a gay t-shirt? [WKYT]

Nope, no one turned out to vote. So few voted, in fact, that it is embarrassing to be a Kentuckian at the moment. [H-L]

The top Democrat in charge of protecting his party’s majority in the Senate thinks it can be done. But he’s deeply concerned his organization won’t have the money to do it. [HuffPo]

Here’s how the mainstream looked at teabagger birther segregationist Marilyn Parker. The hilarity is here, folks, and it is golden. [C-J/AKN]

A majority of people think Mittens Romney was more concerned with profits than he was concerned with jobs at Bain. [Daily Kos]

We are so, so very sad. Newt Gingrich is all out of whore diamonds! The world is such an awful place. Poor Newt. [Wonkette]

BRAVE PATRIOT Teabagger Birther Marilyn Parker is now essentially a Louisville Metro Council member. PEE ALERT. Let’s take this trip down the crazy lane. [The 'Ville Voice]

How a 21-year-old college kid bankrolled a congressional primary victory in Kentucky. Here’s a look at the RonRandMassie teabagger kid. Also, Preston Bates. HAHAHA. [Mother Jones]

Here’s the Ronnie Ellis take on the Fourth Congressional District primary that played out for Republicans last night. [Ronnie Ellis]

All the sudden, Geoff Davis is concerned about outside groups having influence in Kentucky. [Ryan Alessi]

Way to go, Eastern Kentucky! Two women were shot in the face by a man who then turned the gun on himself in Stanton on Tuesday afternoon. [H-L]

This was a dumb idea in Lexington to begin with, right? Who comes up with something like that? [H-L]

OH GOD NOW RED CHINA IS JUST COLD TAKIN OVER THE MOVIES!!!1! A Chinese conglomerate announced Monday it will buy a major U.S. cinema chain, AMC Entertainment Holdings, for $2.6 billion in China’s biggest takeover of an American company to date. [NPR]

In a time when gay satan has plagued the churches with rampant homosexual battles, a breath of fresh air has been given to those on the side of good. This story is absolutely crazy. [Wonkette]

The Kentucky Democratic Republican Party will pretend this isn’t based in reality: Obama, as we’ve noted before, has performed especially poorly in West Virginia and Oklahoma, where he took less than 60 percent of the vote. (His top opponent in West Virginia was a federal inmate in Texas, while in Oklahoma it was an anti-abortion rights activist). Obama also took just 77 percent in Louisiana, where several other candidates split up the vote. In the same vein, the Arkansas and Kentucky primaries tonight are likely to include significant numbers of Democrats spurning the president. In the former, Obama faces a one-on-one contest against attorney John Wolfe , while in the latter, he faces the “uncommitted” option. [WaPo]

A rare slip-up by lawyers has helped shed some light on a high-profile legal battle, the details of which some of the largest Wall Street firms have been fighting to keep under wraps. [The Economist]

If you’ve spent much time consuming conservative media lately, you’ve probably learned about a slow-burning “race war” going on in America today. [BuzzFeed]

Election problems were minimal by the middle of the day because next to no one showed up to vote. [H-L]

Here’s an interesting look at Joplin a year later. Is this the future for Eastern Kentucky? [HuffPo]

Late last Friday, Buzzfeed reporter and Rolling Stone contributor Michael Hastings broke what looked like a big scoop: Congress was quietly planning to lift a 64-year-old law preventing the US government from using propaganda on its own citizenry. Before the House passed its defense budget bill Friday afternoon, Hastings reported, a bipartisan group of congressmen tacked on an amendment that would “essentially neutralize” a set of time-tested guidelines “that had been passed to protect U.S. audiences from our own government’s misinformation campaigns.” [Mother Jones]

A Washington-based watchdog group says an eastern Kentucky Baptist pastor violated federal law when he urged his followers to vote President Barack Obama out of office in November. [WKYT]

Because we all know 21-year-old kids just have $500,000 laying around to throw at some random teabagger in the armpit of Kentucky.

Of course Paul Patton is trying to figure out a way to get even more of your tax dollars to use at his private school. [H-L]

A super PAC’s abortive plan to launch incendiary, personally charged attack ads against President Barack Obama sent a sharp warning message to candidates up and down the federal ballot: This year more than ever, they are not in control of their own destinies. [Politico]

You could fill a baseball stadium many times with the people who experts say die each year from an error, injury or infection suffered while undergoing medical treatment. Many more are harmed. [ProPublica]

After emotional appeals from parents on both sides of the case, Dharun Ravi was this afternoon sentenced to 30 days in jail and three years of probation for bias intimidation and invasion of privacy when he used a webcam to spy on his gay roommate at Rutgers University in September 2010. [NPR]

The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear an Obama administration appeal arguing that attorneys, journalists and human rights groups have no right to sue over a law making it easier for U.S. intelligence agencies to eavesdrop on foreign communications. [Reuters]

A retail renaissance? The internet and mobile phones are at long last turning boring old retail banking into an exciting industry, says Jonathan Rosenthal. [The Economist]

What’ll happen in those Whitley County elections today? Will the good old boy system further its network of corruption? [Times-Tribune]

Hal Rogers’ fancy little airport is once again coming under fire. The Feds are raising questions about services contracts at the joint. [H-L]

Nope, no one is going to vote today. Turnout is expected to be worse than, well, you can imagine. [C-J/AKN]

What happens in Laurel County when you try to break up a fight? You get hit with an ax. Obviously. [WYMT]

Rick The Splooge owes all kinds of money to his mouth-breathing folks, apparently. Is he still a thing? Why are we still talking about Rick Santorum? [HuffPo]

Chris Christie and some other bloated white men love to claim Barack Obama is the least experience president ever. Apparently, they’ve never heard of George W. Bush. [Politico]

The teabaggers are going absolutely crazy in Tennessee. Watching these shenanigans will make you proud to be a Kentuckian because our teabaggers are a bit less insane. [Reuters]

Vice President Biden said he understood the frustration that led many West Virginia Democrats to vote for a felon over President Obama in the state’s presidential primary. [The Hill]

Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia are backing Montana in its fight to prevent the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision from being used to strike down state laws restricting corporate campaign spending. [NPR]

And you still want to claim it’s wrong to try to stop kids from getting fat. Here’s what’s happening. They’re all going to die before they’re 40. [HuffPo]

On Sunday, Local 619M of GCC/IBT (the union the C-J press people belong to) unanimously rejected the contract offered by Gannett and unanimously voted to seek a strike sanction. [Deep Kentucky Newspaper Thoughts]

Lawwwd, look at this fat white lady hollering about how mean the non-whites are. Pee alert/gag alert. Where is Skoal Rebel?! [Wonkette]

The University of Pikeville will soon have a new president. Paul Patton will be replaced by James Hurley in July 2013. Patton will remain as “chancellor,” raking in more and more cash. [WKYT]

Is 2016 tempting to Rand Paul? You know it is. Because his ego, unlike ours, is real. He believes he’s presidential material. [C-J/AKN]

Does it really matter if Loretta Lynn is 77-years-old or 80-years-old? What a silly story for people to be freaking out about. [WLKY]

Dan Rather once again hit the nail on the head about corporate media and its gross relationship with government. [HuffPo]

White House visitor logs provide a window into the lobbying industry. And the extreme extent of lobbyist access. [WaPo]

Cultivating Fear: The Vulnerability of Immigrant Farmworkers in the US to Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment. You should go read the 95-page report. [Human Rights Watch]

Donors to Hal Rogers (shocker!) got a sweet deal from the government to sell them $6.5 million worth of $17,000 drip pans. All thanks to Rogers’ fancy earmarks. [NYT]

A small group of anti-war demonstrators staged a peaceful “die in” on Thursday at President Barack Obama’s election campaign headquarters in Chicago to demand an end to the war in Afghanistan and unmanned drone aircraft attacks overseas. [Reuters]

Oh, please. These Democrats are only a member of ALEC so they can go on trips for free. The same as every other Democrat and Republican in the state legislature. [WFPL]

Roger Alford spends almost every waking moment attacking this website and loving the teabaggers. So here’s more on his obsession with them. [H-L]

The Republicans are still terrified of President Barack Obama and they can’t stop foaming at the mouth. Chris Christie tried to eat everybody. And there’s no way the RPK is raising much cash with K.C. Crosbie at the helm. Won’t be long til that joint is as bad off as the KDP. [Ronnie Ellis]

In a nondescript building next to the Hard Rock Cafe in downtown Washington, a group of lawyers gathers every fortnight to bicker in public. [The Economist]

Even the NAACP has decided it doesn’t hate the gays and supports gay marriage. [Reuters]

And Maryland has decided that the gays can now get gay divorced. So. Get ready for all kinds of gay fighting. [BBC]

The Paulbots are slowly beginning to eat each other alive. It’s almost interesting watching them foam at the mouth now that their overlord has admitted permanent defeat. [Politico]

When MaryAnn Nellis tried to pay for groceries on April 14, her credit card was declined. Later, she said, she found out why: Her credit card company, Capital One, had flagged an earlier purchase as potentially fraudulent. The problem? A $5 donation to Friends of Scott Walker, the Wisconsin governor’s campaign committee, Nellis said. [ProPublica]

This whole “war on coal” scam is near-death. Almost no one believes there’s actually an effort to kill coal forever. The mouth-breathers like Bill Bissett and the Kentucky Coal Association continue to push that non-sense and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars attacking anyone who dares question mountaintop removal or dares suggest the world consider other energy options. [The Hill]

I’ll Have Another overtook Bodemeister, blazing down the stretch to win the Preakness in the final strides Saturday and keep alive his hopes of winning the Triple Crown. [NPR]

Nope, Chris Christie didn’t rip his suit while in Lexington. He apparently ripped Barack Obama. Or tried to. But it was really tough to stand at the podium for a long time. [H-L]

The Obama administration on Thursday ordered hefty tariffs on solar panels imported from China, arguing the Chinese goods are sold below fair-market place and are endangering the U.S. clean energy industry. [Slate]

Like Alecia Webb-Edgington’s guy, who was/is/maybe/was/who knows? helping to operate this joint:

Citizens for Working America is not the biggest or the most influential of the super PACs, but it may provide one of the clearest illustrations of how hard it is to track the shadowy organizations that have sprung up to influence elections in the wake of the Supreme Court’s landmark Citizens United decision.

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Jeremy Hughes, a Kentucky political consultant who worked on the unsuccessful Senate campaign of Trey Grayson (who lost the Republican primary to now-Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., son of GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul) was the PAC’s treasurer for the 2010 cycle but has since left.

Which just spent $50,000 attacking Thomas Massie:

Citizens For A Working America PAC is dropping $50K on a TV buy hitting Lewis County Judge Executive Thomas Massie (R), while their sworn enemies at the Americans For Growth, Opportunity and Prosperity have spent another $31K on direct mail in support of Massie. (James L)

Details:

Purpose of Expenditure: Television Advertising
Name of Federal Candidate supported or opposed by expenditure: THOMAS H. MASSIE
Candidate ID: H2KY04121
Office Sought: House of Representatives
State is Kentucky in District 04
Date Expended = 05/15/2012
Person Completing Form: Mr. David Langdon, Esq.
Date Signed = 05/16/2012
Amount Expended = $50000.00
Calendar YTD Per Election for Office Sought = $50000.00

This information comes just a couple days after Alecia appeared on KET yammering on about how awful it is that outsiders are trying to buy the election:

Interesting how that works, isn’t it?

Hughes can’t pretend he’s not in contact with Alecia and the PAC folks on a regular basis. Or that he’s worked with/currently works with both.

Who wants to bet that PAC cash came from the special interest-types she met with in Washington, D.C. several weeks ago?

Alecia could have a problem on her hands if Massie’s folks decided to pursue this.

Mitch McConnell once again forgets that he is the pot calling the kettle black. [The Hill]

How badly will the Time Warner transition from Insight hurt? Will lubrication be necessary for customers in Kentucky? [H-L]

Kentuckians are already familiar with the damage that can be done with outside campaign money and activity. It’s the only way teabaggers can get elected. [NPR]

What? You mean your schools are selling out to big ag like Monsanto left and right? [Mother Jones]

Trader Joe’s is opening in Lexington at the end of June and that means Lexington hipsters are pooping their pants in excitement. [WLEX18]

Thomas Massie seems to have a problem with Kentucky Open Meetings laws and the Office of the Attorney General is sniffing around. [Page One]

This mess in Colorado where bond companies get involved in pushing school construction campaigns sounds a lot like what goes on here in Kentucky. With both schools and court houses, that is. [Denver Post]

A former supervisor of the KFC Yum! Center has sued the Kentucky State Fair Board, claiming he was fired after reporting “illegal and dangerous conduct” by board employees. Which sounds just right in Louisville and Kentucky. Whistleblowers always get fired and torn apart. [C-J/AKN]

Do you live in one of the most well-read cities in America? Of course not! You live in Kentucky. [HuffPo]

The last few years has been pretty much a nonstop ride of positive safety PR for the nuclear power industry, right? I mean, this is a technology that absorbed an enormous earthquake and tsunami and barely even killed anyone/left whole towns uninhabitable/terrified the world. Heh. [Wonkette]

Police in western Kentucky are investigating the fatal shooting of a woman who worked as a counselor in a middle school. [WKYT]

Lexington is in full panic mode over a homeless shelter. It’s all the typical hoopla. [H-L]

Karl Rove and the teabaggers may suddenly have to disclose their fancy donors. And you know Republicans don’t like anything like that. [HuffPo]

If Marcus Carey has the goods on Thomas Massie lying about euthanasia, he needs to release them. Otherwise, he’s just playing pat-a-cake and is itching for someone to bring up DUIs. [Bluegrass Bulletin]

On a scale of one to teabagger crazy, how hilarious is it that Rand Paul is now trying to run for the presidency or whatever? [C-J/AKN]

It must have been the tales of privileged schoolboy terorrizing that ultimately won over Bush’s heart. [Wonkette]

Mittens Romney’s campaign is defending the massive JPMorgan loss. Wow. That should illustrate perfectly what’s wrong with Mittens. [HuffPo]

What? You mean the deficit is lower now than when President Barack Obama took office? Surely not! [Think Progress]

It’s almost sad that Ray Jones didn’t have much to say when Steve Beshear was selling off Medicaid to the highest bidder without any due diligence. Eastern Kentucky certainly loses again. [WYMT]

“God” may be a major theme in this south-central state senate race but it’s a shame people still continue to play pat-a-cake with wedge issues. [H-L]

Earmarks still have friends in high places – like Mitch McConnell. Because he loves loves loves to buy votes with your tax dollars. [Politico]

An historic country store went up in flames in Grant County last night. They’re one of our favorite things about rural Kentucky. [WLEX18]

Here’s a sad look at why Democrats are losing the Fourth Congressional District. Again. For the millionth time. [Page One]

Here’s just one of the reasons:

From: Milly Diehl REDACTED ADDRESS
To: mhdiehl REDACTED ADDRESS
Sent: Fri, May 11, 2012 3:50 pm
Subject: Bill Adkins in Ft. Mitchell May 14

Support Bill Adkins for Congress
Monday May 14 –5:30 -7:30 pm
213 Prather Court, Ft. Mitchell
Hosted by:
Aimee and Adam Wulfeck
Debbie and Rick Wulfeck

Fundraiser
“all donations appreciated”

Yep. A fundraising invitation with no paid-for-by disclaimer language, nothing about contribution limits, yadda yadda.

The Democrats love complaining about Republican missteps in the 4th but it looks like we’re in for a long, embarrassing Democratic failure.